[PATCH] UML - Fix !NO_HZ busy-loop

[Jeff Dike]

[ This one needs to get into 2.6.24 ]

With NO_HZ disabled, the UML idle loop effectively becomes a busy
loop, as it will sleep for no time.

The cause was forgetting to restart the tick after waking up from
sleep.  It was disabled before sleeping, and the remaining time used
as the interval to sleep.  So, the tick needs to be restarted when
nanosleep finishes.

This is done by introducing after_sleep_interval, which is empty in
the NO_HZ case, but which sets the tick starting in the !NO_HZ case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/um/os-Linux/time.c |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c	2007-11-14 10:33:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c	2007-11-26 15:50:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ long long disable_timer(void)
 {
 	struct itimerval time = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 } });
 
-	if(setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0)
+	if (setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0)
 		printk(UM_KERN_ERR "disable_timer - setitimer failed, "
 		       "errno = %d\n", errno);
 
@@ -74,13 +74,61 @@ long long os_nsecs(void)
 	return timeval_to_ns(&tv);
 }
 
+#ifdef UML_CONFIG_NO_HZ
+static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+}
+#else
+static inline long long timespec_to_us(const struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	return ((long long) ts->tv_sec * UM_USEC_PER_SEC) +
+		ts->tv_nsec / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC;
+}
+
+static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	int usec = UM_USEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+	long long start_usecs = timespec_to_us(ts);
+	struct timeval tv;
+	struct itimerval interval;
+
+	/*
+	 * It seems that rounding can increase the value returned from
+	 * setitimer to larger than the one passed in.  Over time,
+	 * this will cause the remaining time to be greater than the
+	 * tick interval.  If this happens, then just reduce the first
+	 * tick to the interval value.
+	 */
+	if (start_usecs > usec)
+		start_usecs = usec;
+	tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec  = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC,
+				 .tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC });
+	interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv });
+
+	if (setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &interval, NULL) == -1)
+		return -errno;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 extern void alarm_handler(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc);
 
 void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs)
 {
-	struct timespec ts = { .tv_sec	= nsecs / UM_NSEC_PER_SEC,
-			       .tv_nsec = nsecs % UM_NSEC_PER_SEC };
+	struct timespec ts;
+
+	/*
+	 * nsecs can come in as zero, in which case, this starts a
+	 * busy loop.  To prevent this, reset nsecs to the tick
+	 * interval if it is zero.
+	 */
+	if (nsecs == 0)
+		nsecs = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+	ts = ((struct timespec) { .tv_sec	= nsecs / UM_NSEC_PER_SEC,
+				  .tv_nsec	= nsecs % UM_NSEC_PER_SEC });
 
 	if (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) == 0)
 		alarm_handler(SIGVTALRM, NULL);
+	after_sleep_interval(&ts);
 }
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